Tag: sapporo

Japan’s “black widow” was sentenced to death by hanging ... as well as in attempted murder of a fourth victim between 2007 and 2013. (Kyodo News via AP, File) Prosecutors painted Kakehi as a woman who showed no remorse and said she tricked her ... ( read original story ...)

Along with the likes of the already announced Leprous, Voyager, Alithia, Orsome Welles, Meniscus and Dyssidia, added to the list are Osaka Punch, James Norbert Ivanyi, Branch Arterial, Toehider, Breaking Orbit, and Glass Ocean; just to name a few. ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA – A Nagoya zoo on Tuesday held the first public viewing of its twin baby chimpanzees, saying the pair — born last month — are growing well and are in good health. The Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens said it is rare for both chimpanzees ... ( read original story ...)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Monday arrested a male employee of the city of Yokohama for allegedly molesting the body of a woman on the JR Negishi Line during the morning rush hour, reports TBS News (Nov. 6). At just past 8:00 am., Tatsuya Shimada ... ( read original story ...)

OSLO, Norway, Nov. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek (ASETEK.OL) and Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, today announced that Cybermedia Center, Osaka University will incorporate Asetek RackCDU Direct-to-Chip™ (D2C) liquid cooling for a new HPC (High ... ( read original story ...)

"We will not stand for that," Trump said at a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "The era of strategic patience is over. Some people say my rhetoric is very strong but look what has happened with very weak rhetoric in the last 25 years." ( read original story ...)

An AI character was made an official resident of a busy central Tokyo district on Saturday, with the virtual newcomer resembling a chatty seven-year-old boy. The boy named "Shibuya Mirai" does not exist physically, but he can have text conversations with ... ( read original story ...)

In his first stop of an extended trip in Asia, Trump stood with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a news conference and suggested the United States will arm Japan, much as the United States has done with allies in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia. ( read original story ...)

In his first stop of an extended trip in Asia, Trump stood with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a news conference and suggested the United States will arm Japan, much as the United States has done with allies in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — President Donald Trump's visit to Japan briefly took a turn from formal to fishy ... with a casual burger lunch and golf on Sunday and formal meetings and a news conference Monday. ( read original story ...)

North Korea in 2002 acknowledged for the first time abducting 13 Japanese citizens, saying eight of them had died, without providing proof. The North allowed five others to visit Japan later that year and they stayed. ( read original story ...)

"Some people say my rhetoric is very strong but look what has happened with very weak rhetoric in the last 25 years," said Trump, who stood with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a Monday news conference. Abe, who has taken a more hawkish view on North ... ( read original story ...)

standing alongside Japanese Prime Minster and promising to work in solidarity with Japan to confront “the North Korean menace.” At an afternoon news conference with Abe here, Trump declared, “the era of strategic patience is over,” and promised to ... ( read original story ...)

Abe, with whom Trump has bonded through multiple summits and phone calls, repeated at the same news conference that Japan backed Trump's stance that "all options" are on the table, saying it was time to exert maximum pressure on North Korea and the two ... ( read original story ...)

HOKKAIDO (TR) – A police chase in Sapporo on Wednesday ended in a fiery crash that left two suspected male members of a gang of thieves dead and another seriously, reports TBS News (Nov. 2). At around 1:50 a.m., a vehicle carrying the three persons burst ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA--Dressed in a kimono called “ohikizuri,” whose bottom is made so long that it drags on the floor, an 18-year-old girl from Tokyo is living her dream as a "maiko" apprentice geisha here. Under the name Makoto, Yuri Akaishi became the first maiko ... ( read original story ...)